I like how basic mathematical clustering is lost on these tards. If person A makes 10 public lies in the course of a week, and person B makes 750, I would expect 740 more points of correction on person B.

This is basically the same as the polling argument. But but but.... you sampled more Dems! No sh*t, Sherlock, maybe that's because there were more Dems in that swing state. If you sampled 50% Dems and 50% GOPers, do you think you'd get a 10 point lead in Michigan? Do you think there'd be more than a fraction of a percent difference? Your poll would thus be worthless for the sake of fairness.

Same thing here. Maybe, just maybe, the f*cking GOP lies more because their base is less educated and they know it. Why do we have to make everything equal when reality doesn't hand out friendship bracelets to you whining pussies?

Lionel Mandrake:Saw some guy on the teevee (just some regular joe) last night commenting on Romney's...lack of apparent success in finding support.

The f*cker actually said that the GOP would be doing "much better" if they had nominated a "real conservative, like Bachmann."

Dear reasonable Republicans: If people like this dictate your future, you will soon cease to exist as a viable national party.

They really don't understand anything, do they? All the GOPers are voting for (Insert your sack of sh*t GOP candidate here). So does Wonder Tard from MN stand a chance of getting the shrinking independent vote out there? These people are really the dumbest f*cking humans that have ever existed.

Really? Jesus Christ, that place needs to lighten up. Mark Zuckerberg should probably pull the corn dog out of his ass.

It wasn't Zuckerberg...it was some thin skinned Conservative weenie who didn't like the thought of a pretty white woman chomping down on a corn dog as that ni-BONG looked on devilishly smiling. I used to torment the Conservative trolls over there all the time until they started ganging up on me and mass "reporting" every post I put up. Eventually when you get enough "reports" they shut you down. It's all automated and strictly a numbers game. I got sick of it after a while and I left them to their "Bare Naked Islam", "Free Republic", "WND" and "The Blaze" links and their circle jerk Conservative festival of mutual fellatio.

By having such a quota, you gave her preferential treatment that kept her in the primary longer than necessary, plus gives her a better chance at winning her district again because you didn't call bullshiat "bullshiat"

In a sane world Michele Bachmann would be ejected from the "Tablecloth Taskforce" for the Girl Scout Cookie Caravan Committee in Amputated Toe, Minnesota, not be a Member of the House and the Intelligence Committee and have a distressing number of people want to have the keychain to the Armageddonwagon.

Mikey1969:Because People in power are Stupid: "PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true" in last debate

Oh, Sweet Jesus... What a dumb broad.

But many people believed her when she said that because they wanted it to be true. They still believe her.

Last week, I actually opened one of those (R)-targeted "FWD: Fwd: fwd: fwd:..." emails from a relative. The email said that Snopes had declared this particular fantasy to be true, and even provided a link to the snopes article. I clicked the link, and snopes clearly declared the entire email to be complete bullshiat. But tens of thousands of people don't bother to (and don't want to) click that link, and they continue to believe in the "outrage du jour" because that's what they want to believe.

They want to be offended by the Brown Man in the oughta-be-White House, and facts would be inconvenient. So they believe the lie in the email, or the lie from the candidate on TV. It fits their view of the world.

Ernest T Bass:They want to be offended by the Brown Man in the oughta-be-White House, and facts would be inconvenient. So they believe the lie in the email, or the lie from the candidate on TV. It fits their view of the world.

I recently started reading The Republican Brain, and it made some interesting points about how data is stored in our brains, and how we basically have hard-coded trails to this data, which makes sense. As a result, even if facts are wrong, it's hard for people to change something that they have invested even a little bit in effort to believe. This is why, even when presented with facts the Right will completely ignore the facts to support their own belief system. They don't consciously choose this, it's automatic. Lefties do this too, but they are more amenable to change, so they don't blindly defy science and fact as often(They still do it, though). Very interesting book.

Oh yeah, I know firsthand that this goes on all the way down to the local news level. If you call one guy out on 3 lies, you have to come up with 3 lies the other guy said, even if they're merely truthy and the first guy told a gazillion whoppers. This is when I realized:

Ernest T Bass:Last week, I actually opened one of those (R)-targeted "FWD: Fwd: fwd: fwd:..." emails from a relative. The email said that Snopes had declared this particular fantasy to be true, and even provided a link to the snopes article. I clicked the link, and snopes clearly declared the entire email to be complete bullshiat. But tens of thousands of people don't bother to (and don't want to) click that link, and they continue to believe in the "outrage du jour" because that's what they want to believe.

I've had that happen to.

*reading email*"This is bullshat"*click on snopes link at end of email*Snopes: "That was bullshat"

Having the link is all the sourcing they need. They know the true-believers won't bother verifying.

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier:I like how basic mathematical clustering is lost on these tards. If person A makes 10 public lies in the course of a week, and person B makes 750, I would expect 740 more points of correction on person B.

/But I'm a liberal and therefore crazy like that.

ME TOO. They let her control the narrative with outright lies. Bachmann won.

During the Republican debates, Michelle Bachmann told so many liessaid so many things that all Republicans believe that the AP fact-checker actually imposed a "Bachmann Quota" so their stories wouldn't end up being overwhelmed with the candidate's falsehoods